Let’s say we’re both walking down the street. I am a haphazard, reckless sort of person so I accidentally stomp on your foot while I’m walking. Maybe I break a toe or two. Does your foot hurt? Does the knowledge that I didn’t intend to step on your foot unbreak your toes? I was being careless, but I sincerely didn’t…

Too bad, I was really enjoying my coffee mugs full of redpiller, neckbeard Reddit tears. I do appreciate Altman addressing the sexist (and worse) remarks towards and about Pao, but knowing Reddit, it’ll stay the same it always has been.

She’s the captain of the ship, her word is law when at sea. At no point did she malign anyone, she simply enforced order.

Frankly I thought it was pretty awesome.

So the message is that if you think she acted like a famewhore, she deserves whatever treatment she got? Got it. That’s not slut shaming at all. :/

But Tanya, everyone knows Hugh Hefner is a player and wealthy. Those are facts, yes. Lots of women dream of being playmate of the year. Best way to do that, I suppose, is sleep with this old pervert.

Please—don’t tell me to “stop now.” You aren’t the only person here who has been abused and you aren’t absolved from being called on what you say.

Yeah, those bitches, being all emotionally abused and manipulated, Why do women complain of emotional abuse at all? Because unless you are under a physical threat, you are just some jerk putting up with shit and should not complain.

Women aren’t held “at gunpoint, against their will” in emotionally abusive relationships, so do you absolve those husbands/boyfriends as well?

You don’t need to live an experience in order to have empathy. Him coming from a place of privilege and using that platform to address issues of the poor is far better than him using his place of privilege to not give a shit.

And, as someone who HAS been there, I’ll advise the same. Do literally anything else within your power before resorting to these predators.

Your annoyance with him (as opposed to, say, the payday loan companies) is really very, very strange.

I think, by that, he meant, “Don’t get involved with these people because they WILL exploit you,” not, “Don’t get involved with these people because you’re pathetic.”

I think you missed the point of that rant.

You seriously don’t understand her position? Yeah, you don’t get to decide how she feels about being called a derogatory term. Get over yourself. I’d be annoyed too if anyone called me a bitch.

This will no never get out of the grays, but, seriously, Natasha, you shouldn’t have “affectionately” called her a “bitch”. And getting all defensive about it when a commenter complains about it doesn’t suit your argument well.

Is it ok to be against rape but still think this sucks

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

My first day working at Best Week Ever I heard some stuff about him. :-/